AUCKLAND BOATBUILDERS' AWARD.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 144, 18 June 1915, Page 2

AUCKLAND BOATBUILDERS' AWARD.

WAGES INCREASED. WELLINGTON RATE HIGHER, BUI WORK LESS REGULAR. The award in the Auckland -hip, yacht, and bo.ithuilders' dispute, filed by the clerk of awards to-day. fixes the hours at -14 per week. The minimum rate of wages for journeymen shipwrights was lixrd at 1/6 per hour, and for boa-builders 1/4J per hour. A boat is defined in the award a<s any vessel under Io tons Customs measurement built under cover. If such a boat is not built under cover it shall be classed and paid for as ship work. Employers are prohibited from borrowing men from each other while there are unemployed shipwright- willing and able to do the same work. Repairing hoppers and doors of dredges in dry deck, engineroom and stokehold bunkers, and charcoal installations shall he classed ai dirty work, and paid for at the rate oi Is extra per day. , Mr. Justice Stringer explains in an attached memorandum that tho Court fixed the hours in conformity with the award made in respect of the Welling ton shipwrights. Wages for shipwright? hud been fixed at 1/6 per hour, a substantial increase nn the wa.es fixed by the previous award, but one penny pet hour less than the rate fixed for Wellington. The Court thought that the fact that the work was more regular ,n the Auckland district justified it in that distinction.